Jonathan Krisel Quotes
Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
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Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
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I think what's most important is family.
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I know that a lot of people take inspiration from the fact that I was just a common man with no film background who turned into a star.
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And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
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Of course I want to have a family, but there's a right time for everything. When my time comes, it will happen.
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With segregation, with the isolation of the injured and the robbed, comes the concentration of disadvantage. An unsegregated America might see poverty, and all its effects, spread across the country with no particular bias toward skin color. Instead, the concentration of poverty has been paired with a concentration of melanin.
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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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I wouldn't say I was a rebel as such, but I certainly wasn't right at school.
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Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.
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All of us salute the ITU's excellent work in the telecommunications space. It has set standards which encourage investment in infrastructure and ensure that a call made from Europe or America connects smoothly in Kenya or anywhere in the world.
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I know why the UFC runs the business the way they do. I know why Conor McGregor makes a base pay of $3 million. But I think I justify my pay with my skill set, and I've always been willing to promote my brand.
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We have all the good policies, all right visions, but the problem is implementation. When we come out of national conference, we want those leaders we have chosen to be those who can implement policies.
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I have fought my own battle with depression, and it was important for me to bring a little awareness about it for others.
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Just be comfortable with who you are.
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Well, it's great that critics are comparing me to Eminem, and not Vanilla Ice.
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When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not give up, that I still believed in myself and that I still had fight left.
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One of the first times I wrote about Robin Williams for 'The New York Times,' I interviewed him for a feature about 'World's Greatest Dad,' a dark comedy he starred in for his friend, the writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait.
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Loads of stuff that I've done has always had a hint of comedy. I did this show called 'Psychoville' that's a horror-comedy. Because I just think that's what life's like.
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For a long time networks just wanted to buy imitations of other shows - i.e. Curb (the Enthusiasm or the Office). The word gets out that "Hey, we want to buy something like that" and every comedy producer just starts dreaming up ideas like that.
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Comedy is like horror - you have to shock something in the viewer's system to make them feel it.
